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"How to Spend your Last Seven Days on Earth"

The Srimad Bhagavatam is a narration of a conversation delivered to a great King of India, he had been cursed to die in seven days and decided to give up his kingdom and learn about the true goal of life. As he prepares for his impending death, the saint Śukadeva Gosvāmī approaches the king and agrees to teach him. Their conversation goes on uninterrupted for seven days, during which the king does not eat, drink or sleep. This took place around 3100 BC and the 7 day conversation comprises 18,000 verses spoken in Devanagri, or Sanskrit. The following work is based on seven lectures by Mahamandaleshwar Sri Krsna Balaram Swamiji and  summarizes the knowledge imparted over  those 7 days. This will take the sincere student, to new levels of awareness and self realization. This work addresses every level of humanity, regardless of religion or situation in life because each of us face the same situation as King Pariksit.

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The Facts About Eating Animals

Number of People worldwide who will die of starvation this year: 60 million
Number of people who could be adequately fed with the grain saved if Americans reduced meat intake by 10%: 60 million
Human beings in America: 243 million
Number of people who could be fed with grain and soybeans now eaten by US livestock: 1.3 billion
Percentage of corn grown in US eaten by people: 20%
Percentage of corn grown in US eaten by livestock: 80%
Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 90%
Percentage of oats grown in US eaten by livestock: 95%
How frequently a child starves to death: every 2 seconds
Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on an acre: 20,000 lbs
Pounds of beef produced on an acre: 165 lbs
Percentage of US farmland devoted to beef production: 56%
Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce 1 pound of feedlot beef: 16 lbs.
Fossil fuels needed to produce a meat-centered diet vs. a meat-free diet: 50 times more
Percentage of US topsoil lost to date: 75%
Percentage of US topsoil loss directly related to livestock raising: 85%
Number of acres of US forest cleared for cropland to produce meat-centered diet: 260 million acres
Amount of meat US imports annually from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama: 200,000,000 pounds
Average per capita meat consumption in Costa Rica, El Salveador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama: Less than eaten by average US house cat
Area of tropical rainforest consumed in every quarter-pounder hamburger: 55 sq. ft.
Current rate of species extinction due to destruction of tropical rainforests for meat grazing and other uses: 1,000 species extinct per year
User of more than half of all water used for all purposes in the US: Livestock production
Amount of water to produce a pound of wheat: 25 gallons
Amount of water to produce a pound of meat: 2,500 gallons
Cost of common hamburger if water used by meat industry was not subsidized by US taxpayer: $35/pound
Current cost of pound of protein from beefsteak, if water was no longer subsidized: $89
Years the world's known oil reserves will last if every human ate a meat-centered diet: 13 years
Years the world's known oil reserves will last if human beings no longer ate meat: 260 years
Barrels of oil imported into US daily: 6.8 million
Percentage of fossil fuel energy returned as food energy by most efficient factory farming of meat: 34.5 percent
Percentage returned as food energy from least efficient plant food: 328%
Percentage of raw materials consumed by US to produce present meat-centered diet: 33%
 

 

 

 

 

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The greatest sacrifice in the age of Kali Yuga

 

hare murare madhu-kaitabhare
govinda gopala mukunda saure
yajnesa narayana krsna visno
nirasraye mam jagadisa raksa


This present age of Kaliyuga started on the full moon day, Friday, of the month of Magha and its duration is 432,000 years out of which more than five thousand years have already passed. In this age people will perform three times more irreligious deeds than pious deeds. In this age Lord Buddha and Lord Chaitanya have already appeared and Kalki will incarnate in the future. In this age everyone exists by eating grains. Unless one eats grains they cannot live. In this age the Ganges River is the main holy place for purification. People will perform every kind of sin and utensils will be made of iron and steel. Everywhere, in all directions, people will engage in quarrel and fights. The liberating Taraka Mahamantra for Kaliyuga is:
hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare
hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare
The personification of the age of Kaliyuga is the brother of irreligion and is dominated by the mode of ignorance. The symptom of this age is hypocrisy, pretension, deception, fraud, conspiracy, fabrication, sanctimoniousness, arrogance and cheating. In other words, the nature of most people in this age is to be irreligious at heart and outwardly pretend to be pious and religious, which is why the Lord appears golden on the outside and black on the inside. As it is stated in Srimad Bhagavatam:
krsna varnam tvisakrsnam sangopangastra parsadam
yajnaih samkirtana prayair yajanti hi sumedhasah
“The Lord will incarnate in Kaliyuga chanting His own names. His bodily complexion will be like that of molten gold. He will appear with His associates, servants and representatives. In this incarnation the Lord will always be chanting the names of Krsna and will preach that in this age chanting the holy names is the only method of sacrifice for liberation. Those with purified intelligence will worship the Lord through chanting His holy names.”
Silently chanting the holy names of the Lord on beads and chanting loudly with musical instruments is the only way to please the Lord in Kaliyuga. Chanting the Lord’s names, either silently or loudly, must be done daily. The scriptures state Krsna and Rama are names of the Supreme Lord. The name Krsna means, “The all attractive Lord,” and the name Rama means, “The Lord that rewards pleasure to every living entity.” The Supreme Lord is unlimited and His names are based upon His transcendental qualities, still His names Krsna and Rama are the best because they represent the Lord’s ultimate qualities. Chanting these names is the best way to receive liberation from this world in this day and age. This is confirmed in the Kalisantarana Upanisad thus:
hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare
hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare
iti ñodasakam namnam kali-kalmasa nasanam
natah parataropaya sarva vedeñu drsyate
“Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare/ Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare, is a sixteen word mantra called the Taraka Mahamantra (the great chanting for deliverance from this world) and it burns all the chanter’s sins into ashes. Even if one searches throughout all the Vedas for a way other than chanting this Mahamantra to remove their sins in the age of Kaliyuga, they will not find one.”
Some people chant this Mahamantra in its reverse manner, but this is incorrect, because Sage Lomaharsana told King Vrsabhanu Maharaja in the Brahmanda Purna Uttarakhanda to chant it in the following way, calling it the Taraka Mantra:
hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare
hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare
“O transcendental potency, Hare, O all attractive Lord, Lord Krsna, O reservoir of pleasure, Lord Rama, please engage me in Your service.” Chanting Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare/ Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare, is the proper way to chant this mantra to receive liberation from this world in the age of Kaliyuga.
If a person born in Kaliyuga accepts a learned, authentic devotee as their Spiritual Master and chants this Mahamantra under his command they will surely receive liberation from this world in a short period of time. In other ages people had to perform austerities for thousands of years, and still had no guarantee to receive liberation. Whereas in Kaliyuga, just by sincerely chanting the Lord’s holy names following an authentic Guru, one can easily receive liberation. Therefore Kaliyuga is said to be the best age for receiving liberation.

 

 


 

 

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